1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Romanian
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Ndiyabulela
Ju faleminderit
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
natën e mirë
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
mirëmbrëma
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
mirëdita
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
mirupafshim
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
unë e dua ju
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million7.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million3.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiXhosa
shqip / gjuha shqipe
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Albanians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Albanian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology